{"id":112128,"date":"2026-03-08T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cristopher-sanchez-4-historic-strikeouts-in-the-world-baseball-classic-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:07:45","slug":"cristopher-sanchez-4-historic-strikeouts-in-the-world-baseball-classic-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cristopher-sanchez-4-historic-strikeouts-in-the-world-baseball-classic-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristopher S\u00e1nchez: 4 historic strikeouts in the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2013 Dominican pitcher Cristopher S\u00e1nchez etched his name in baseball history books on Friday night. During the 2026 World Baseball Classic, S\u00e1nchez achieved a rare feat: striking out four batters in a single inning, during the game between the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua held at loanDepot park in Miami.\n\nThe Dominican left-hander started the game by striking out the first Nicaraguan batter, Chase Dawson, although he managed to get on base due to a wild pitch. Nicaragua&#8217;s offense capitalized on the situation, stringing together consecutive hits from Benjam\u00edn Alegr\u00eda and Ismael Mungu\u00eda, added to a walk given to Mark Vientos, which congested the bases with no outs and gave them an initial lead.\n\nFaced with this situation, S\u00e1nchez showed composure and control. The Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; opener struck out the following three batters: Omar Mendoza, Emanuel Trujillo, and Melvin Novoa.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With this outstanding performance, S\u00e1nchez became the first pitcher in the history of the World Baseball Classic to achieve a four-strikeout inning, a rarity that occurs when a batter reaches base after an uncaught third strike.<\/p><cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe exciting episode marked the beginning of an intense encounter between both teams, witnessed by a crowd of fans in Miami.\n\nDespite his historic performance, S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s participation in the mound was limited. The Dominican pitcher left the game after only 1.1 innings, in which he allowed two earned runs and six hits.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2013 Dominican pitcher Cristopher S\u00e1nchez etched his name in baseball history books on Friday night. During the 2026 World Baseball Classic, S\u00e1nchez achieved a rare feat: striking out four batters in a single inning, during the game between the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua held at loanDepot park in Miami. The Dominican left-hander started the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,6177,2009,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-112128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cristopher-sanchez","10":"tag-punches","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}